An obscure event resurrected from the footnote heap

Chicago Sun-Times | February 5, 1989| | Copyright

`History is written by the winners," goes the old saying. In the long run, however, it's possible for the losers to exact a small measure of revenge. That, at least in part, is what makes David Levering Lewis's The Race to Fashoda (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, $11.95) such a satisfying - though often saddening - journey into the past.

By focusing on a late 19th century face-off between Britain and France in a crumbling town in southern Sudan, Lewis has managed to rattle to their foundations the traditional histories of the colonial era. Once a historical footnote, the Fashoda Incident of 1898 ...

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